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Hungry to leave his dead-end banking job and to play in the big leagues, Jay West lands a coveted position with the powerful investment firm of Donovan & Lloyd, working for the influential, charismatic Oliver Mason, a deal-maker with the Midas touch, a fierce ally who handpicked Jay for the job. With the incentive of a million-dollar bonus at the end of the year, Jay strives to make his mark, unaware that he is stepping into an elaborate trap—baited with the seductive promise of power and influence.
Jay soon suspects that Oliver's stellar track record is more than a result of hard work or good luck. The man seems to have everything—not just fast cars and a luxurious home in Connecticut, but a violent temper, a strained marriage, and a boundless hunger for money and prestige. The stakes are raised when a trusted coworker is brutally murdered and the beautiful Sally Lane joins the team, a mysterious blonde with the ability to coax secrets out of others—while seductively keeping her own.
With a conspiracy of deceit and corruption beginning to close around him, Jay races to untangle the sordid lies that have quickly and too conveniently blackened his name. Trusting no one and remaining one step ahead of both the law and his unknown adversaries, Jay must rely on his own cunning and wits to stay in the game—and to stay alive.
With breakneck pacing from the opening bell, The Insider is a multilayered, action-packed thriller of wealth and the lust for it, heated passion and ruthless competition, survival and power—no matter the cost.
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- ISBN: 9780345482099
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- ISBN: 9780345482099
- File size: 458 KB
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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August 1, 1999
Frey has been a banker and has worked at J. P. Morgan in mergers and acquisitions. He is also the author of recent best-sellers, such as "The Inner Sanctum" (1997) and "The Legacy" (1998). Reviewers usually assign Frey's work to the "financial thriller" genre, but the intrigue he weaves here runs the gamut from romantic to political. Even though his plot employs a complicated financial scheme, Frey avoids losing his readers by using narration and dialogue that clearly explain the details. The hero is Jay West, who jumps at the chance to work for a powerful Wall Street investment firm. Little does he know that he is being set up by the man who hired him. Every piece of advice and every invitation or gift the man offers West is part of a sinister strategy to implicate West in crimes the boss has committed. Along the way a body is dumped in an alligator-infested Louisiana swamp, a corporate jet is blown up over the Atlantic, a secretary at the firm is strangled with a necktie in a hotel room, and an illegal arms deal goes down in Afghanistan. Frey's crisp style keeps you eagerly racing ahead, curious to find the connection between all these misdeeds. ((Reviewed August 1999))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1999, American Library Association.)
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